Small question: What armour is this?

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Buddhist relief from Swat, Gandhara

On the bottom scene, the hunting scene a Saka is depicted about to deliver the killing blow to his prey. He wears a quilted DIAMOND SHAPED cuirass, much like those depicted in Teleklos' post.

If you want a bigger version of the above, so that you can see in detail what we talk about here it is,

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...oScythians.jpg

What I see there is the same old quilted armor of yore that shouldn't exist in our period. Why is it an armor? Well, considering the first pic (the saka dancing with sleeves pulled up), the one below deffinitely has some armor on top of that. This would be the quilted cuirass with pteryges below, again much like what Teleklos showed in his post pic.

The timeline of IndoScythian kings (or Saka) is the following, in Gandhara (and all of Northern India) where this frieze was found,

Maues (90 - 60 BC)
Vonones (75 - 65 BC)
Spalahores (75 - 65 BC)
Spalirises (60 - 57 BC)
Spalagadames
Azes I (57 - 35 BC)
Azilises (57 - 35 BC)
Azes II (35 - 12 BC)
Zeionises (10 BC - 10 AD)
Kharahostes (10 BC - 10 AD)
Hajatria
Liaka Kusuluka
Kusulaka Patika

Thus it stands to reason that quilted cuirass was worn way after 3rd century BCE as was claimed.

If you want to watch another discussion about quilted cuirass, (this one in much earlier bronze age) go to the following link. As Urnamma said, Both Egyptians and Mycenaeans used quilted cloth cuirass
http://z8.invisionfree.com/Bronze_Ag...?showtopic=773